Prince of Wales Sea Training School Information

PWSTS in my opinion was the best sea training school in the UK. There were boys from all over, Iceland, Channel Islands, Faros, and I think at one stage NZ. It was a privilege to have been chosen especially in times when it was hard to get into the MN. My six months at Prince of Wales was one of the happiest times in my life, when I joined the 'ORONTES' with my mates we were re-fitting for the first trip after her trooping for 5 years, and two days before, my mate Jim Addicott was taken ashore to hospital with suspected pneumonia and we were told that he had died two days later, I found out fifty years later that he was still alive and that we had sailed with the same company Fulhams. I have since caught up with him when he came out here to see me.